Questions Niche Scoring Should Answer (Technical Founders)

If you cannot answer these in one sentence each, do not start coding.

Who Specifically Is the Audience

Role + recent behavior. Two-axis filter.

What Specific Channel Reaches Them

LinkedIn search by title? Niche Slack? GitHub? Predict response rate.

What Do They Currently Pay

Adjacent vendor names with prices. Twenty minutes of search produces this.

What Is Your Customer-Visible Differentiation

Specific mechanism. Not engineering elegance.

What Is Your Real Builder-Fit

Audience and trust, not engineering capability. Specific named advantage.

What Did You Get Wrong in Scoring

Which assumption did the scoring force you to revise? If "none," you scored to confirm.

If You Cannot Answer One

Do not commit engineering time. Score five new candidates or do twenty minutes of research on the open question.